{"id":6371,"date":"2015-03-08T02:50:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T02:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2015-03-08T02:53:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T02:53:56","slug":"gor-mahia-held-by-ulinzi-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-held-by-ulinzi-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia held by  Ulinzi stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/gm-ulinzi-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of the Nation<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia warmed up for their Africa champions league first round encounter against AC Leopards with a scoreless draw against Ulinzi stars.<\/p>\n<p>With a massive continental game looming next weekend, Gor\u2019s head coach Frank Nuttall stuck to his usual first 11 against the physical Ulinzi side, who were also using the match to keep in shape with Kenyan Premier League matches put on hold by the High Court.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Both sides played cautiously in the first interval with neither side exhibiting the genuine thirst of winning the game. The first shot on goal came after 33 minutes when <em>K\u2019Ogalo\u2019s<\/em> in form forward Victor &#8216;Teargas&#8217; Abondo forced\u00a0a feeble shot from tight angle in the Ulinzi box that did not trouble the soldiers\u2019 goalie Francis Ochieng\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tough game against a tough opponent. It was a good build-up ahead of the weekend game and it will give the boys a chance to recover from the knocks as we have an entire week,\u201d Gor coach Frank Nuttal said after the match. \u201cAll the teams we are playing (in the Champions\u2019 League) were champions in their respective countries and so we expect a tough match (against AC Leopards).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Scot\u00a0made a forced substitution in the 27th minute, pulling out midfield enforcer Khalid Aucho for Erick Ochieng when the former appeared to incur a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He also pulled out vice-captain Musa Mohamed\u00a0and defensive partner Dirkir Glay\u00a0late in the second half, but deputy coach Frank Ouna said that it was just a\u00a0precautionary measure. \u201cWe have very few players registered for the champions\u2019 league and we do not want to lose any of them. It was a precaution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-held-by-ulinzi-stars\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>courtesy of the Nation Gor Mahia warmed up for their Africa champions league first round encounter against AC Leopards with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[282,203],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-friendlies","tag-gor-mahia-vs-ulinzi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6375,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions\/6375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}